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...rose in church politics, Father Joseph met the youthful Bishop of Luçon, Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, who was soon fondly calling his new friend "Tenebroso-Cavernoso"-the Dark and Deep One. When Richelieu became prime minister, he wrote that "next to God, Father Joseph had been the principal instrument of his present fortune." He begged His Grey Eminence to come to Paris and take the job he held until he died in 1638-"unofficial chief of staff for foreign affairs...
Gimbels' venture in art selling started last winter when the agents in charge of William Randolph Hearst's art hoard cast about for some method of converting it quickly into cash. Dr. Armand Hammer, head of Manhattan's Hammer Galleries, gave them the idea of selling it through a department store. So successful was the Hearst sale that Gimbels decided to keep on selling big art collections on consignment, put ace Art Salesman Hammer in charge...
...Russians showed the utmost tenacity," wrote Napoleon's General Armand de Caulaincourt, as any D.N.B. reporter might have this week. "Their ranks did not break; pounded by the artillery, sabered by the cavalry, forced back at the bayonet-point by our infantry, their somewhat immobile masses met death bravely, and only gave way slowly before the fury of our attacks. . . . Several times he [Napoleon] said to . . . me: 'These Russians let themselves be killed like automatons . . . this does not help...
...minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...
...operatic bus fumed out of Manhattan on the first lap of a 5,000-mile run which will take it as far south as Birmingham, Ala., as far north as Pittsfield, Mass. By Friday, when it hit the Lafayette College gymnasium at Easton, Pa., Metropolitan Singers Hilde Reggiani, Armand Tokatyan and John Gurney were complaining of the Cuban cigars smoked by fat Conductor Giuseppe Bamboschek in the back seat. But the 550-odd college students who jammed Easton's gymnasium thought the bus-toted Barber was swell, spent ten minutes bellowing and pounding for curtain calls. When...